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Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide

More examples of using Chicago style can be found in Chicago Manual of Style (Call No. R808.02 U58) or online at http://www.shoreline.edu/library/style.html.

Authored Book (Chicago Manual of Style, p. 529)

Note:
     7. Gilbert Herdt, Same Sex, Different Cultures: Exploring Gay and Lesbian Lives (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997), 32.

Following footnotes for the same book:
Ibid ("in the same place") is used to refer to a single work cited in the note immediately preceding:
     8. Ibid
When the work is cited earlier but not immediately preceding:
     Herdt, 32.

Bibliography (one author):
Herdt, Gilbert. Same Sex, Different Cultures: Exploring Gay and Lesbian Lives. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997.

Note (three or more authors):
     9. Mary Jones et al., A History of the World (Bellingham: From the Beginning Press, 2000).

Following footnotes for the same book:
     10. Jones et al., History of the World, 17.

Bibliography (three or more authors):
Jones, Mary, Frank Smith, Alex Jackson and Sarah Pope.  A History of the World.  Bellingham: From the Beginning Press, 2000.

For works having more than three authors, a note citation should give the name of the first author followed by "et al" or "and others." The bibliography citation should list all the authors.

Journal Article (Chicago Manual of Style, p. 569)

Note (1st):
1. Sean Hanretta, "Women, Marginality and the Zulu State: Women’s Institutions and Power in the Early Nineteenth Century," Journal of African History 39 (1998): 389-415.

Following footnotes of the same article:
     2. Hanretta, 389.

Bibliography:
Hanretta, Sean. "Women, Marginality and the Zulu State: Women’s Institutions and Power in the Early Nineteenth Century." Journal of African History 39 (1998): 389-415.

Magazine Article (Chicago Manual of Style, p. 576 )

Note:
3. Adam Rogers, "Thinking Differently: Brain Scans Give New Hope of Diagnosing," Newsweek, 25 December 1998, 60-62.

Bibliography:
Rogers, Adam. "Thinking Differently: Brain Scans Give New Hope of Diagnosing ADHD." Newsweek, 25 December 1998, 60-62.

Full Text Journal Article from ProQuest

Note:
4. Philip I. Earl, "Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression," The Oral History Review 24 (1997), Available: ProQuest; ADDRESS:http://proquest.umi.com/ (May 5, 1999).

Bibliography:
Earl, Philip I., Winter 1997. "Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression." The Oral Review 24 (1997). Available: ProQuest; ADDRESS: http://proquest.umi.com/. (May 5, 1999).

Note: The last date is the day you used the online database.

Newspaper Article (Chicago manual of Style, p. 577)

Note:
5. Tanya Kerstiens, "Pick a Color: Children of Mixed Race Struggle to Find Identity," Bellingham Herald, 10 January 1999, sec. C, p. 1.

News items from daily papers are rarely listed separately in a bibliography when using this style. In a work containing both a bibliography and notes, citations to specific items may be given in the notes or in the text and not listed in the bibliography.

Web Site

Note:
21. Hugh Elton, "Byzantine Warfare," Warfare in the Ancient World, 4 April 1999, (23 April 1999). <http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~helton/army.html>.

Bibliography:
Elton, Hugh. "Byzantine Warfare." Warfare in the Ancient World. 4 April 1999.
     <http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~helton/army.html> (23 April 1999).
Note: The first date is the day the Web site was created or last updated, the last date is the day you used the Web site.